combining form of L. clēr-us, Gr. κλῆρος, in its late sense ‘clergy,’ as in † Clerolaical a., composed of clergy and laity; † Cleromastic, a scourger of the clergy.
1599. Broughton’s Lett., ix. 31. By the Presbyterie you meane their Clerolaïcall Consistorie.
1606. Bp. W. Barlow, Serm., A 3 b. Any Clerolaicall Consistorien.
1659. Gauden, Tears Ch., 49. These Clero-masticks and Church-destroyers still maintain a most implacable war against the Church of England.
